In the Dairy State, there are few honors more delicious than having a Babcock Hall ice cream flavor named after you.

This rare honor has now been bestowed on UW-Madison Bands director Mike Leckrone, who is retiring this spring after 50 years of leading students through their paces on and off the football field.

The Babcock Hall Dairy Store is featuring its newest flavor, March on Leckrone, a vanilla ice cream with cranberry swirls and white chocolate flakes, at Memorial Union and Union South, as well as at the store at 1605 Linden Drive.

The last ice cream named in honor of a UW big-timer came in August 2013, when new Chancellor Rebecca Blank had Bec-Key Lime Pie churned out by the dairy in honor of her new lead role on campus.

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